My Own Little Vincent van Goghs
How to paint Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers with Children
Vincent van Gogh is considered a genius for his use of color, texture and movement as expressive, emotional tools. These characteristics make his work identifiable.
How to identify a Vincent van Gogh:
*Swirls and curls
*Complimentary Colors
*Sunflowers
*Portraits
*Self-portraits
*Night skies
Van Gogh's 10 years of artistic effort produced about 900 paintings. There are many today that are considered masterpieces which shows his extraordinary drive, focus and talent. Today, several of Van Gogh's paintings are some of the most expensive in the world.
Van Gogh's art has touched many people. His art gets into our hearts and minds and makes us art lovers.
Vincent van Gogh LESSON PLAN
SYNOPSIS:
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh created two series of still life paintings featuring sunflowers. The first series featured loose sunflowers lying horizontally. The second series featured sunflowers in vases. This painting, 'Sunflowers F458,' is a repetition of an earlier painting from the second series. In the painting sunflowers is painted in various states, many missing petals, others with crooked stems, or another with a bloom from a yellow vase adorned with the name, "Vincent." The surface supporting the sunflowers and the wall behind the sunflowers are in shades of yellow.
VOCABULARY:
DUTCH: Relating to the Netherlands, its people, or their language.
STILL LIFE: A painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware.
SUNFLOWER: A tall North American plant of the daisy family, with very large golden-rayed flowers. Sunflowers are cultivated for their edible seeds, which are an important source of oil for cooking and margarine.
INANIMATE: Not alive and showing no sign of life, especially not in the manner of animals and humans.
MUSEUM: A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
CONCEPTS:
The still life genre artwork features inanimate objects such as flowers, fruit, books, musical instruments, and bowls, and dinnerware.
The still life artwork may include small bugs or other living creatures, but breathing, moving things are not the focus of paintings classified in the still life.
Although still life artwork is not considered a well-respected form of painting, artistically speaking. However, most art teachers teach this extensively.
Still life art may contain animals, however, the animals in still life art are typically non-living.
There are four common types of still life art:
Flowers
Fruit
Non-living animals
Symbolic
How to paint Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers with Children
Vincent VAN Gogh Sunflowers:
Materials
Picture of Sunflowers
Yellow poster board
Pencil
Glue Stick
1/2 cup of ground coffee
Squeezable glue bottle, 1/2 full
Spoon
Mixing stick
Marker
Use the pencil to draw a horizontal line across your poster board about 6 inches from the bottom. Draw a large vase that extends above and below this line.
Visualize how your sunflowers will fill the vase and draw their round centers onthe poster board
Apply glue stick to one flower center. Sprinkle the ground coffee over the glue and press in place. Repeat for all sunflower centers.
Add about a spoonful of orange paint to the bottle of glue and shake it up.
Squeeze the colored glue onto the poster board using squiggles, dots and lines to create petals around the flower centers. Decorate the vase and the table top with the colored glue as well. Let dry.
Sign your name like an artist.
